I bought an encyclopedia
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I bought an encyclopedia
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Re: I bought an encyclopedia
#2Similarly, I purchased a copy of "Bosch Automotive Handbook" [1]. For $65 it will literally walk you through every component of a vehicle, from the metals required, the fuel, to the electronics. It's presence on my bookshelf is meant to be aspirational.
Re: I bought an encyclopedia
#3Similarly, I purchased a copy of "Bosch Automotive Handbook" [1]. For $65 it will literally walk you through every component of a vehicle, from the metals required, the fuel, to the electronics. It's presence on my bookshelf is meant to be aspirational. https://www.sae.org/publications/books/content/bosch10/
Very cool, thanks for the link
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#4Conversely, I spent years convincing my parents to buy a computer precisely so I could read Wikipedia. It was pretty much my main hobby between the ages of 14 and 16.
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#5There's a very implicit assumption in this text that the encyclopedia you buy in 2024 does NOT contain all sorts of AI-generated stuff.
Not sure I have that much faith in the world anymore to trust that to be true.
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#6I don't get it. Does the set he purchased have the lost Beatles song? If not, what's the point?
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#7I still have my 1979 World Book set (plus the 1980 Year Book!). I part-exchanged a 1952 set I'd inherited from an older cousin - many of the articles hadn't changed in the interim.
It still serves as an excellent stabilizer for a set of freestanding bookselves.
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#8Conversely, I spent years convincing my parents to buy a computer precisely so I could read Wikipedia. It was pretty much my main hobby between the ages of 14 and 16.
Wikipedia is one of the major positive use cases for the internet*.
As long as they can keep up with curation, that is.
Paper encyclopedias may be fun, but let's point out that he bought one for the kids to play a 20 year old game in an emulator. So they only need information from 20 years ago.
* along with cat photos, obviously.
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#9This article is mostly fluff. There's garbage in encyclopaedias as well and little possibility of finding errata. It also teaches the kids that you should trust one canonical source of information, which is bad.
Teach your kids critical thinking instead.
Re: I bought an encyclopedia
#10This article is mostly fluff. There's garbage in encyclopaedias as well and little possibility of finding errata. It also teaches the kids that you should trust one canonical source of information, which is bad. Teach your kids critical thinking instead.
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